Video Display issue Hoster 4.11

[Roy Dennis]

Have you tried Tools/options/ Reset displays button ? Then drag and resize.


Roy.

[marklwood]

I think Roy has it right. Dragging the corners to the edges will keep it out of full screen mode. Even though the video is the same size, Windows treats it differently if you are not in full screen mode. Full screen is what you get when you double click.

[Singsation]

Thanks for your replys
It does not disply video on the second monitor at all, just the window with a black screen, works fine when playing through insta button even when double clicked to enable full screen, works fine using media player, it has got to be a issue with hoster not dispaying video through a second VGA port.
Plays the video through the singers display when docked in the peview window

[ddouglass]

We have seen this before in here, and I believe it is a problem with the video drivers. Did you happen to upgrade those as well?
Believe me it is not a Hoster problem as no one else has asked about this and there seems to be plenty of users switching to Windows 7.
Just out of curiosity does your laptop have an HDMI output? This is a small connector that is very easy to miss.
What is your resolution set to on the computer monitor?

[Singsation]

Hi ddouglass, it's not a laptop it's a all in one with a 23" screen, there is no extra output for video/vga/or hdmi on this unit, which is why i bought a usb to VGA adapter.
What i can't understand if i use the insta button to load the mpeg everything works fine so it can't be a hardware problem or a driver problem, but if i use the video button in hoster to load the video then it will not display the video on the singers screen no matter what size window i use or or what resoloution or bit setting.
I can use windows media player and that works fine playing the mpegs on the second screen.
KMA files all work ok.
I remember have the same probs on a sony vaio laptop which only had a vga out around version 3.3 but that laptop has long gone.
Thanks.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Singsation

Hi ddouglass, it's not a laptop it's a all in one with a 23" screen, there is no extra output for video/vga/or hdmi on this unit, which is why i bought a usb to VGA adapter.
What i can't understand if i use the insta button to load the mpeg everything works fine so it can't be a hardware problem or a driver problem, but if i use the video button in hoster to load the video then it will not display the video on the singers screen no matter what size window i use or or what resoloution or bit setting.
I can use windows media player and that works fine playing the mpegs on the second screen.
KMA files all work ok.
I remember have the same probs on a sony vaio laptop which only had a vga out around version 3.3 but that laptop has long gone.
Thanks.

you probably need to get a usb powered pc to tv converter that has vga/s-video and rca output

[Singsation]

yes thought about that, but why will one part of hoster play it, (insta) and the main part not, its go to be the way the hoster is written, it's not the end of the world as this is the house computer, but the bit is between my teeth and I know it will be late nights untill it's sorted.
Also not getting my emails to say you guys have posted for some reason.
Thanks

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Singsation

Hi ddouglass, it's not a laptop it's a all in one with a 23" screen, there is no extra output for video/vga/or hdmi on this unit, which is why i bought a usb to VGA adapter.
What i can't understand if i use the insta button to load the mpeg everything works fine so it can't be a hardware problem or a driver problem, but if i use the video button in hoster to load the video then it will not display the video on the singers screen no matter what size window i use or or what resoloution or bit setting.
I can use windows media player and that works fine playing the mpegs on the second screen.
KMA files all work ok.
I remember have the same probs on a sony vaio laptop which only had a vga out around version 3.3 but that laptop has long gone.
Thanks.

Sorry about that. I didn't look up the unit until after I wrote that. I don't know why it isn't showing the videos but I know plenty of people are using Windows 7 and not having a problem, so that pretty much rules out Hoster's code.
Any video for both Instabuttons and playlist use WMP to display them in the box and using the Video Display settings.

[Singsation]

thanks for the reply gents, head scratcher, cant help thinking though it's the way the program is written as it uses far less processing power to play a video in hoster from the video button, than from the insta button or windows media player.